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2 writing things
Jan. 3rd, 2013 02:21 pm1. There is a new scene in my urban fantasy novel that deals with Native American mythology (specifically a Seneca/Cayuga folktale), and I would feel more comfortable if I could have someone take a look at it for me who might be able to tell me if I'm being disrespectful without realizing it. I'm aware that there is next to no chance I'm going to find someone who's specifically Cayuga or Seneca in a random, small subset of Internet fandom, but is there anyone out there among you who has a cultural background that'd make you more conscious of indigenous people's issues than (white girl) me, and would be willing to take a look at it for me? Please email me at layla@ravenschildren.com. I'd prefer to fish among fannish people before I go bothering the mundanes. :D
2. I need to give my character a crappy car, the sort of hilariously awful beater that college students buy, where things randomly fall off and the engine makes funny noises and one of the doors is held on with duct tape, etc etc. I had stuck a placeholder car in there until I came up with something better. The problem is, I'm perusing auto listings on Craigslist, and most of the vehicles that were considered dreadful lemons when I was in college ... just aren't around anymore; they've beaten themselves off to the scrapheap! True, I could probably give her anything that's 10-15 years old and has been in a couple of wrecks, but I want something that's entertainingly bad, but preferably not old/rare enough to have attained collector status. Ideas? Personal experience? (This is based in the US, fyi, in the current year.) The very BEST beater car from my and my husband's shared youthful experience was a 1984 Plymouth Turismo (it's exactly the kind of thing I want, where stuff would just randomly break when you're driving down the road) but those don't seem to exist anymore, for reasons that are probably self-evident to anyone who's owned one.
2. I need to give my character a crappy car, the sort of hilariously awful beater that college students buy, where things randomly fall off and the engine makes funny noises and one of the doors is held on with duct tape, etc etc. I had stuck a placeholder car in there until I came up with something better. The problem is, I'm perusing auto listings on Craigslist, and most of the vehicles that were considered dreadful lemons when I was in college ... just aren't around anymore; they've beaten themselves off to the scrapheap! True, I could probably give her anything that's 10-15 years old and has been in a couple of wrecks, but I want something that's entertainingly bad, but preferably not old/rare enough to have attained collector status. Ideas? Personal experience? (This is based in the US, fyi, in the current year.) The very BEST beater car from my and my husband's shared youthful experience was a 1984 Plymouth Turismo (it's exactly the kind of thing I want, where stuff would just randomly break when you're driving down the road) but those don't seem to exist anymore, for reasons that are probably self-evident to anyone who's owned one.